We performed a comparison between Sophos Cyberoam UTM and Sophos UTM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Unified Threat Management (UTM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The tool's robust features allow for the customization of policies, objects, and firewall settings."
"The interface is user-friendly."
"The user interface is well laid out and understandable."
"I found that the best feature of Sophos Cyberoam UTM is reporting. Its reporting feature is excellent, fast, and easy to prep and launch."
"The solution's web filtering is an important feature for us in our company."
"The solution is excellent for web and application filtering and remote access with the VPN."
"It has been working fine. You just turn it on, and it works."
"Technical support is excellent."
"The stability, overall, is excellent. I haven't had a problem in the last two years."
"The initial setup is pretty easy."
"The most valuable feature is ransomware protection."
"The solution is easy to handle and configure."
"Sophos SG UTM had all the basic functionality that you needed. It is user-friendly and easy to manage for any integrator."
"An easy solution to learn because the graphics are very intuitive."
"The UTM features are reasonably strong and the patterns are updated on a regular basis"
"I would recommend UTM over XG because it's easier to manage."
"The product is at its end-of-life. There is nothing to improve as it will be discontinued."
"I have problems with the email filtering. Emails pass through without any filtering affecting them. When I get back to them and tell them this is the issue, they check everything and say it is not in their database signature and they have to update it. But you know, by that time, my user has already opened it."
"Hence, it needs to be easier to configure rules using the solution."
"The solution should improve its scalability because it cannot support enterprise networks."
"The configuration requires an expert to be set up, so it could be made simpler."
"What needs improvement in Sophos Cyberoam UTM is openness in the competition among Sophos partners or any other Sophos product. Another area for improvement in the solution is pricing. It could be cheaper."
"I would like to see improvements in the development of reports. The process needs to be made simple."
"Network visibility is an area in the solution with shortcomings where improvements can be made."
"The scalability of the product is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"The solution needs better integration with captive portals and XGs."
"They could definitely improve on the support, especially in other countries."
"Anti-phishing functionality should be improved."
"Monitoring and reporting are areas that need improvement."
"The initial setup was straightforward. The full deployment takes approximately two days which could be simplified to reduce the time. The major part of the process is the configuration and the policy setup."
"There were a lot of features and functionality in Sophos SG UTM but nothing was state of the art in terms of technology. You did not get the latest functions. It was very monolithic as it was based on an old Linux PuTTY system."
"The technical support only communicates via email. I would prefer to communicate directly with someone."
Sophos Cyberoam UTM is ranked 7th in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 81 reviews while Sophos UTM is ranked 1st in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 110 reviews. Sophos Cyberoam UTM is rated 8.0, while Sophos UTM is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Sophos Cyberoam UTM writes "Stable and has a straightforward setup; reporting is fast and easy". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos UTM writes "It's a highly stable platform with very few hardware issues". Sophos Cyberoam UTM is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Netgate pfSense, Cisco Secure Firewall, Juniper SRX Series Firewall and Untangle NG Firewall, whereas Sophos UTM is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Fortinet FortiGate, Sophos XG, OPNsense and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls. See our Sophos Cyberoam UTM vs. Sophos UTM report.
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